Apparatus for burning petroleum and other liquid



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No. 391,018. Patented 001;. 16, 1888.

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J. W. BUDD. APPARATUS FOR BURNING PETROLEUM AND OTHER LIQUID HYDROGARBONS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

JOSEPH \V. BUDD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR BURNING PETROLEUM AND OTHER LIQUID HYDROCARBONS.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,018. dated October 16, ].88.

Serial No. 207,070. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beitknownthat I, J osnrn W. Bonn, of the city and State of New York, haveinvented an Improvement in Apparatus for Burning Petroleum and other Liquid Hydrocarbons, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to heat the steam that passes into the generator to ahigher temperature and regulate with facility the admission of combustible gases into the combustion-chamber, so that the intensity of the fire may be regulated without affecting the portion of the apparatus in which the gases are generated. 1 make use of a box or generator, into which the hydrocarbon liquid or vapor is admitted, and to which steam in a highlysuperheated condition is also admitted and caused to eommingle, so that the steam is decomposed by the carbon combining with the oxygen and liberating the hydrogen, and the latter mixes with the olcliant gases and is con sumed beneath the generator and around the coils of pipe forming the superheater. The superheater is a series of coils of small pipes forming a jacket or case to the generator, so that the steam is subdivided and intimately heated, in order that as much steam as possible may be available for furnishing combustible gases to the tire. The gases that have been generated are passed through a pipe or pipes leading outside the furnace-chainberand through a cock of refractory materialsuch as asbestusand returned into the tire chamber, so that the volume of flame in the firechamber may be varied at will.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a general plan of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same at the line 00 Fig. 3 is a vertical section at the line yy, and Fig. 4 is a separate plan view of the pipes and regulatingcocks.

The generator A is in the form of a rectangular box, preferably made of plates bolted together, and within the same are pendent plates 2 2, upon which are adjustable partitions 8, held by bolts passing through slots, so that the distance between the lower edges of the partitions 3 and the bottom of the generator can be regulated as desired. These plates 2 and their respective partitions 3 divide the generator into a central and two side chambers. Into the central chamber the petroleum or other hydrocarbon liquid or vapor is ad mitted by the pipe 4, and the superheated steam is also admitted into the same chamber byjetpipes 6 7 8 9, thatstand around tle nozzle or end of the pipe 4, and hence the superheated steam issuing from the said jetpipes comes directly into contact with the petroleu m-vapors, and these remain together within the central chamber of the generator, and the carbon combines with the oxygen of the steam. and the gases then pass below the partitions3 into the outer chambers, and thence to the other parts of the apparatus next described. By adjusting these partitions the gases are caused to pass as close to the heated bottom of the generator as consistent with an unobstructed flow of the same, and these partitions can be raised or lowered, as required.

The tubular legs B open into the side chambers of the generator near the top thereof. They are closed at their lower ends and stand upon the feet 10, and at D are slotted pipes connecting the pairs of legs, there beingthimbles between the ends of the slotted pipes and the respective tubular legs and deflecting ends 11 (see Fig. 3) within the tubularlegs, so that part of the gases passing down the legs will be directed into the slotted tubes and issue from the slot and burn beneath the generator A and the coils hereinafter described, to heat the same. The lever projections 12 upon the tubes D allow of their being partially rotated to direct the issuing flames upon the proper parts of the coils and generator. Ranges of perforations may take the place of the longitudinal slots.

There are cross-pipes 15 connecting the legs B with the horizontal gas-pipe E, that passes from between the legs to the exterior of the casing orfirechamber. This casing or firechamber may be of any desired size or shape. A portion of the same is shown at G.

Outside the firechamber the pipe E is provided with a T-connection to the returning gaspipes H and K, and at L L are cocks by which the flow of gases through the respective pipes can be regulated. These cocks are preferably made of asbestus or other refractory material, so as not to be injured by the heat of the gases.

The pipes H and K pass back between the legs B, and to them are connected by couplings or Ts the burner-pipes N N, that form I do not herein lay claim to any of the sepa- 6c two or more groups extending out horizontally, rate devices that are set forth in a joint applior nearly so, and these pipes are of the desired cation of George D. Carroll and myself, filed length, according to the capacity desired for November 16, 1885, Serial No. 183,030.

5 the furnace, and such pipes are perforated or I claim as my inventionslotted upon their upper surfaces for thegases 1. The generator formed as a box and hav- 65 to issue and burn within the fire-chamber. ing within it the pendent plates 2 2 below the By this improvement the extent of heating top, in combination with the partitions 3, excapacity can be varied by increasing or dimintending downwardly from said plates, and

I ishing the length or number of the burnermeans whereby said partitions may be adpipes without otherwise changing the appajusted, and the pipes for supplying into such ratus, and the height or volume of flame can generator hydrocarbon fluid and superheated be regulated by the cooks L L. steam, substantially as set forth.

In order to concentrate the flame from the 2. The generator formed as a hollow metal slotted tubes D upon the generator and at the box,and the pipes for supplying into the same same time to superheat the steam, I make use hydrocarbon liquid and superheated steam, in 75 of a hood, M, formed of small sized pipes surcombination with the tubular supporting-legs rounding and at a smalldistance from the genopening at theirupper endsinto the generator, orator and placed close together to confine the the horizontal slotted pipes D between the flame. This hood is composed of separate pairs of legs B- and opening into the same, so

coils placed one above the other, and the steam that gas is supplied from the generator to the 80 supplied in a regulated quantity to the pipe flame that beats the same, the connecting- P is subdivided and passed through the repipes 15, and pipe E, extending outside the spective coils and becomes highly heated in fire-chamber, cocksfor regulating the passage such coils, because the pipes are small,and the of gas, the return-tubes H K, passing back volume of steam passing through each coil is into the fire-chamber, and the lateral burner- 85 brought intimately into contact with the heat tubes extending out from the tubes H K, subin the pipes of the coils, and the superheated stantially as specified. steam issues by the respective jet-pipes 6 7 8 3. The combination, with the generator 9; and in addition to these there are the coils formed as a hollow box, and the supply-pipe R R, that are beneath the generator and confor hydrocarbon liquid and the jet-pipes for 9) nected to the branch pipes and coils, as heresuperheated steam, of a ,hood composed of iuafter stated. separate coils of small pipes placed closely to- A convenient manner of subdividing the gether around the hood and the coils of pipe 5 steam and making the connections to the coils below the hood, and a supply-steam pipe and is to carry out the branch pipes 20 21 and 22 separate connections to the respective coils 95 23 at opposite sides of the pipe 1?, and to lead and connections from such coils to the jetthese pipes to the respective coils or sections pipes within the generator, substantially as of the hood M in the mannerillustrated in the set forth.

o drawings, the coil 24 being connected at one 4:. The combination, with the generator end to the jet-pipe 6 and at the other end to formed of a hollow metallic box, and a pipe I o the horizontal coil B and to the branch pipe for supplying hydrocarbon into the same, of 20, the coil 25, jet-pipe 7, horizontal coil It, numerous jet-nozzles for superheated steam and branch 22 being connected, the coil 2-6, around the inner end of the carbon-supply 5 jet-pipe 8, and branch 21 and the coil 27, jetpipe, a separate coil for each jet-nozzle and a pipe 9, and branch pipe 23 being connected, connection from the same to the steam-supply :05 forming other channels for the steam. By pipe, and perforated pipes for the gases to these various channels for the steam to pass pass through and burn below the generator, and to be exposed to the action of the heat said coils being around and below the genera 0 the desired volume of steam can be suffioient-ly tor, so as to be exposed to the intense heat of superheated to act in the desired manner in the flame and superheat the steam, substanno volatilizing and decomposing the petroleum or tially as specified. other hydrocarbon, and in consequence ofthe Signed by me this 18th day of June, A. D. connections to the respective legs coming to 1886.

gether in opposite directions the gases descending those legs commingle, and if there is JOSEPH BUDD' any inequality in the production of the gas Witnesses:

the mixing of the same will render the flames CHARLES W. PIPER,

more uniform. IRA STANTON. 

